Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GCET-2012) for admission in MBA and MCA colleges for 2012-13 session will started from Thursday. The exam will be held in two phases, Phase-I 14-June Or 16-June, and Phase-IIÂ 18-June Or 20-June. There are 132 MBA colleges in the state with 13,185 seats. There are total 23 centres for GCET exam.

There are 82 MCA colleges with 6,670 seats. There are 13,623 students who have applied for admission to MBA, while 7,677 students have applied for MCA. The number of students who have applied for appearing in GCET for both MBA and MCA courses is 1,733. Officials said that the total number of students who will appear for GCET is 22,868. The students have the option of taking the GCET twice so that their best score will be used for admission. However, 183 students have applied to take GCET only once.

Students will appear for GCET to be held in three sittings – from 9am to 11am, from 1pm to 3pm, and from 5pm to 7pm.